Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Four men held in a jail in an Indiana village were taken from their cells at midnight by a vigilance committee and hanged from a tree on December 11, 1868. The committee had met secretly the night before to consider the hanging. The Evening Telegraph account, published the following day, gives no names for the men.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.